Rebecca Gordon

Mainstreaming Torture

Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 United States

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Produktbeschreibung

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 reopened what many Americans had assumed was a settled ethical question: Is torture ever morally permissible? Rebecca Gordon argues that institutionalized state torture remains as wrong today as it was before those terrible attacks, and shows how U.S. practices during the ''war on terror'' are rooted in a history that includes support for torture regimes abroad and for the use of torture in the jails and prisons of this country.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780199336432
• ISBN-10: 0199336431
• Artikelnr.: 40076286

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Gordon received her B.A. from Reed college and her M.Div. and Ph.D in Ethics and Social Theory from Graduate Theological Union. She teaches in the Department of Philosophy and for the Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good at the University of San Francisco. Previous publications include Letters From Nicaragua (1986) and Cruel and Usual: How Welfare Reform Punishes Poor People (2001).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Describing the Problem
2. Torture in the Conduct of the ''War on Terror''
3. The Current Discussion
4. A Different Approach: Virtue Ethics
5. Considering Torture as a (False) Practice
6. Goods and Virtues
7. Conclusion: What Is to Be Done?
Notes
Index